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- Civil rights movements United States History Dictionaries
- Civil rights movements --United States --History -- Encyclopedias
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 Encyclopedias
- World War, 1914-1918 Encyclopedias
- World War, 1939-1945 Dictionaries
American National Biography offers portraits of men and women -- from all eras and walks of life, as well as thousands of illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references, and links to select web sites.
- A-Z of Modern America. Alicia Duchak. New York: Routledge, 1999.
- SML, Reference E169.12 D83X 1999
Dictionary of American History is the first comprehensive revision of the classic reference source originally published in 1940. 1,500 illustrations and 300 maps have been incorporated into the main body of the work which includes over 4,400 articles ranging in length from 100 to 8,000 words.
- Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History is a comprehensive reference overview of the Vietnam War, which treats all aspects of the war (military, diplomatic, political, and socioeconomic).
- Also in SML, Starr Main Reference Room DS557.7 E53X 1998+
- Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era. Ed. William K. Klingaman. New York: Facts on File, 1996.
- SML, Reference E743.5 k57X 1996
- Historical Dictionary of the 1920's: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933. Ed. James S. Olson. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
- SML, Reference E784 O44 1988
- Historical Dictionary of the 1960's. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.
- SML, Reference E841 H58X 1999
- Historical Dictionary of the 1970's. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.
- SML, Reference E839 H57X 1999
- Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement. Ralph E. Luker. Lanham: Scarecrow, 1997.
- SML E185.61 L84X 1997 Also in DIVINITY Reading Room.
- Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Ed. James I. Matray. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
- SML DS918 H536 1991
- Historical Dictionary of the New Deal: From Inauguration to Preparation for War. Ed. James S. Olson. Westport: Greenwood, 1985.
- SML, Reference E806 H58 1985
- Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920. Ed. John D. Buenker, Edward R. Kantowcz. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
- SML, Reference E661 H586 1988
- Historical Dictionary of World War I. Ian V. Hogg. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
- SML, Reference D510 H65X 1998
- Korean War Almanac. Harry G. Summers. New York: Facts on File, 1990.
- SML, Reference DS918 S86 1990.
- The Korean War: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Stanley Sandler. New York: Garland, 1995.
- SML, Reference DS918 K5645X 1995
- The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research. Ed. Lester H. Brune. Westport: Greenwood, 1996.
- SML, Reference DS918 A1 K7X 1996
- Modern America, 1914 to 1945. Ross Gregory. (Almanacs of American Life) New York: Facts on File, 1995.
- SML, Reference E766 +G745 1995.
- World War I : encyclopedia / Spencer C. Tucker, editor ; Priscilla Roberts, editor, documents vol. ; Cole C. Kingseed ... [et al.] assistant editors ; foreword by John Eisenhower.
- SML, Reference D510 E53 2005+
- The 1960s: An Annotated Bibliography of Social and Political Movements in the United States. Rebecca Jackson. Westport: Greenwood, 1992.
- SML, Reference Z7164 S66 J28X 1992
- America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources. David R. Woodward. New York: Garland, 1985.
- SML, Reference Z6207 E8 W67 1985
- The Great Depression: A Historical Bibliography. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1984.
- SML, Reference Z7165 U5 G73 1984
- Herbert Hoover: A Bibliography of His Times and Presidency. Richard Dean Burns. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1991.
- SML, Reference Z8414.97 B87X 1991
- The Korean War, An Annotated Bibliography. Keith D. McFarland. New York: Garland, 1986.
- SML, Reference Z3319 K6 M38 1986
- New Day/New Deal: A Bibliography of the Great American Depression, 1929-1941. David E. Kyvig. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
- SML, Reference Z1244 K95 1988
- The New Era and the New Deal, 1920-1940. Robert Eugene Burke. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan, 1981.
- SML, Reference Z1244 B87.
- The Second World War and the Atomic Age, 1940-1973. Edmund David Cronon. Northbrook, IL: AHM, 1975.
- SML, Reference Z1245 C76.
- The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. Louis A. Peake. New York: Garland, 1986.
- SML, Reference Z3226 P43 1986
- The United States in World War I: A Selected Bibliography. Ronald Schaffer. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1978.
- SML, Reference Z6207 E8 S3
- Vietnam battle chronology : U.S. Army and Marine Corps combat operations, 1965-1973 / by David Burns Sigler.
- SML,Reference DS557.7 S57X 1992
- World War II From an American Perspective: An Annotated Bibliography. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1983.
- SML, Reference Z6207 W8 W67 1983
- Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Sandra M. Wittman. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.
- SML, Reference Z3226 W58 1989
- Academy of Achievement features outstanding individuals from the 20th century.
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School contains digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government, from pre-18th century to the 20th century.
- American Museum of Photography
- Cold War History is a guide to online resources for the study of the Cold War.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers (Stanford U.) includes speeches, sermons, papers, biographical information and articles.
- Mississippi Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography is a bibliography of oral history interviews on Civil Rights, offering transcripts and indexes of the archive.
- National Civil Rights Museum provides interactive tours.
- New Deal Network contains a database of over 20,000 photographs, political cartoons, and texts pertaining to the New Deal, as well as WWW links and multimedia resources. Sponsored by Teachers College/Columbia U.
- Project Thomas provides full text access to current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
- The Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive serves as a research facility for scholars of U. S. public policy, specializing in American politics and history with special attention paid to the American Presidency.
- World War posters (UGA) has a searchable archive of poster images and descriptions from World Wars I and II.
America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, covering over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Academic Search provides access to journal articles in most academic areas of study. It includes full-text coverage for journals from 1990 to the present and abstracts/indexing of journals from 1984 to the present.
Access: The Supplementary Index to
Periodicals indexes magazines not presently indexed in Reader's
Guide to Periodical Literature, including city and regional magazines.
SML, Reference, Index Case AI3 A23 (LC)
Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive (1969 - present) is a guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.
Alt-Press Watch contains newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
America: History and Life is a bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Left Index contains political, economic, social and culturally scholarship inside and outside academia with a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Topics covered include the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
Nation
Digital Archive contains every issue of The Nation from July 1865 through the present.
British and world events covering 1758 to the present and including contemporary
opinion, historical context and biographical information from the American
War of Independence, through western industrialization and world wars.
Post World War II documents which have been declassified through FOIA
and/or executive orders from the National Archives, the CIA and Presidential
Libraries. The documents range from correspondence and memoranda to minutes
of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements
and intelligence estimates.
Declassified documents that led to policy decisions.
Keesing's
Record of World Events
Worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs.
North
American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides
a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and
Canada between 1840 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and
diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, each
unit in the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range
of disciplines.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950 includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Contact Gregory Eow, Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and American Studies,
Research Services and Collections, Sterling Memorial Library.
Updated February 5, 2008